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[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 235 points 4 months ago
[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 169 points 4 months ago

FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.

It is very, very bad.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 195 points 4 months ago
[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

The second season's arc is about uncovering what SCOOBY was within the show, and there were lots of goofy references to how silly the old cartoons were, and how silly cartoons are in general

i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely

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[-] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago

it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago
[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Not watching it tho

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.

It was okay, better than the shitty Netflix adult animations. The worst part of it was the Velma character, if they got rid of or changed her it would be better.

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[-] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 75 points 4 months ago

A negative boy was unsure about a radical party.

The boy was a square, so he missed out on four awesome chicks.

And the whole thing was over by 2am...

[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 27 points 4 months ago

This is beautiful, as a mathematics major it brought me to tears. I’ll be reading this at my wedding

[-] pitaya@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago
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[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago

Coming from someone that memorized it in high school and hasn't used it since, I am enraged.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

It's a formula very useful for a tone of engineering fields, electronic, mechanics, automatic control and probably a bunch more. I used it a tone in my early carrier, including the imaginary flavor.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago

Yeah if your field uses anything beyond basic math this bitch is hiding somewhere

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[-] Mpatch@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

When I started Chem engineering in college, it blew me away that like 80% of lab math and analisis was just using the linear equation everyone bitched and moaned about how useless it was in high-school.

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[-] hayvan@feddit.nl 36 points 4 months ago

When stupid people try to make a show about smart people.

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 36 points 4 months ago

Such an strange error. I'm not saying it's AI but here's my prompt:

Generate a picture of someone thinking and, to symbolize their thought process, show math symbols and equations around their head, these symbols have to include the quadratic formula

Here's the pic:

1761354151808

[-] m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 29 points 4 months ago

I suspect it’s an OCR error.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm guessing a typesetter was too lazy to add another textbox and although they knew how to type "√", didn't realize "²" is in Unicode too. They added a horizontal line as separate graphics to extend the square root symbol but only realized too late the whole thing is in a fraction: maybe someone reminded them and they misinterpreted the advice, or just decided not to split the text box to put the nominator higher.

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago

I stared at the square of the square root of the squared square root for far too long...

that I almost missed the obvious E = / * A. Where would the field of mathematics be without that good old E = / * A? :-D

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago
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[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Did they use AI to generate that?

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Neural Network (bad one)

[-] josephc@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

My guess is they lost the typesetting in a copy/paste. If you copy superscript or the unusual +/- character into an animation tool that doesn't have the font or doesn't recognize the typesetting it will drop the character or convert it to the nearest ASCII. If you've ever copied and pasted something into an email and had the formatting mangled, that's like what happened here.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

didn't get an animation job for the math skills

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 months ago

i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely, its okay if you didn't, but people got really carried away with just how much they hate ~~women~~ the show, it's a cartoon, enjoy it or dont, don't act like Rome is burning before your eyes

good jokes, inclusive characters, queer people that don't die in the first episode, fun subversion of expectations, meta humour about tropes, a fun mystery, cancelled too soon, but there's still 30something episodes

it made me reasses how I felt about Mindy Kaling's work as a whole, turns out I had been caught up in the misogynistic whirlwind in the past, I've really enjoyed her older stuff upon revisiting it since seeing Velma

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

... Why not just copy the meme they're referencing? It's like they're intentionally trying to screw this up.

[-] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

Wrong formula aside, what is the meaning of dividing an entire equation? (x = b) / a

[-] Crazazy@feddit.nl 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

quotient equivalence under an equivalence relation "a" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient_type

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[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I feel for Velma. I am so bad at math that sometimes I go into a corner by myself so I can hide what I'm working on from my coworkers while I scribble down very complex maladaptive strategies I've learned to solve simple calculations.

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[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

You know, I remember the formula, but I don't remember what a, b, and c are

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

They're the coefficients of a quadratic equation! Y = ax^2 + bx + c

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago
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[-] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

I mean maybe it's just some other formula

[-] shoki@lemmy.world 62 points 4 months ago

I've never seen an equals sign inside a term

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It makes the term into a boolean ☝️🤓

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 16 points 4 months ago

I was trying to think what the funniest part was. I think it's the b2 - like just take your b2 vitamins bro, it's worth like squared a regular b.

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[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

As someone terrible at math, I appreciate the explanation for what's so wrong here.

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[-] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

Well I didn't spot that

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 months ago

Are both sides being divided by 2a?

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 10 points 4 months ago

Those are questions that mere mortals would ask. Be better: just "vibe solve" it. :-P

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[-] stray@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

You start by dividing both sides by 2a, and then you can multiply both sides by 2a to get rid of the 2a's from both sides. Doing this will give you a sense of accomplishment whenever you don't know how to proceed.

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